Apparently, Censorship Is Not Enough In China

Nicholas Hamisevicz / January 14, 2010

Google, which was censoring its searches in compliance with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) demands, still faced cyber attacks. Google announced that it is “no longer willing to continue censoring [its] results on Google.cn” after facing “a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on [Google’s] corporate infrastructure originating from China.” David Drummond, Senior Vice President for Corporate Development and Chief Legal Advisor, wrote on Google’s official blog that the primary purpose of the attack was to gain access to the “Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.” Google made this statement after realizing that for the CCP, censorship is not enough.

Economic liberalization along with the free flow of information was supposed to help bring political freedoms to China. When entering the China market, Google reasoned that getting some information into China was better than no information. Now it is rethinking that position. (more…)